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Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spellingand punctuation remains unchanged.
“JAPAN AS IT WAS AND IS”
A HANDBOOK OF OLD JAPAN
II
Uniform with this Work
A HANDBOOK OF MODERN JAPAN.
By Ernest W. Clement. With two
maps and seventy-two illustrations
fromphotographs. Sixth edition.
Price,$1.40 net.
A. C. McClurg & Co.
Chicago
From Official History of Japan
Hildreth’s
“Japan as it Was and Is”
A HANDBOOK OF OLD JAPAN
EDITED, WITH SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES, BY
ERNEST W. CLEMENT
AUTHOR OF “A HANDBOOK OF MODERN JAPAN,” ETC.
INTRODUCTION BY
WM. ELLIOT GRIFFIS
With One Hundred Illustrations and Maps
Volume I
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1906
Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1906
Published September 29, 1906
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
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CONTENTS
Volume II
| CHAPTER XXXII | ||
| Page | ||
| Post-Houses—Imperial Messengers—Inns—Houses—TheirFurniture and Interior Arrangements—Bathing and SweatingHouse—Gardens—Refreshment Houses—What they Provide—Tea | 1 | |
| CHAPTER XXXIII | ||
| Number of People on the Road—Princely Retinues—Pilgrims toIse—Junrei Pilgrims—Naked Devotees—Religious Beggars—BeggingOrder of Nuns—Yamabushi, or Mountain Priests—BuddhistBeggars—Singular Bell-Chiming—Huckstersand Peddlers—Courtesans | 15 | |
| CHAPTER XXXIV | ||
| Departure from Nagasaki—Train of the Dutch—The Day’sJourney—Treatment of the Dutch—Respect shown them inthe Island of Shimo—Care with which they are watched—Innsat which they lodge—Their Reception and Treatmentthere—Politeness of the Japanese—Lucky and UnluckyDays—Seimei, the Astrologer | 31 | |